gutsy install stops after formatting partitions

[Patrik Jansson]

Binary package hint: ubiquity

Ubuntu 7.10 beta, ubiquity 1.5.18

While running the installer, after custom partitioning 5%
through "Installing System" the installer stops working (without a
crash - just no activity). The Live-CD system is still usable (I write
this on the system). The kern.log ends with these three
lines:

Sep 30 21:25:39 ubuntu kernel: [ 3643.416000] __open_file: branch 0
lower_mnt_idx NULL! Set to df8f7a00
Sep 30 21:25:39 ubuntu kernel: [ 3643.416000] __open_file: opened
f4eec110, string.pyc
Sep 30 21:25:39 ubuntu kernel: [ 3643.416000] __open_file: branches
bstart 0, bend 0

but I don't if that is relevant. Other potentially interesting
information: /var/log/installer/debug report version 1.5.18 and
otherwise only complains about the locale failing to fall back to "C"
from "sv_SE.UTF-8" due to missing files.

The install CD is OK (I checked the media before trying to install).

Some work has been done to the new partitions:
ubuntu@ubuntu:/var/log$ df -h
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
tmpfs 759M 33M 727M 5%
/lib/modules/2.6.22-12-generic/volatile
tmpfs 759M 33M 727M 5%
/lib/modules/2.6.22-12-generic/volatile
varrun 759M 92K 759M 1% /var/run
varlock 759M 4.0K 759M 1% /var/lock
udev 759M 76K 759M 1% /dev
devshm 759M 0 759M 0% /dev/shm
tmpfs 759M 16K 759M 1% /tmp
/dev/sda1 6.9G 144M 6.4G 3% /target
/dev/sda7 15G 165M 14G 2% /target/home
/dev/sda2 12G 11G 455M 97% /target/windows

I retried using ubiquity --debug with the same result.

/Patrik

PS: More data
lspci gives
00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Mobile 915GM/PM/GMS/910GML
Express Processor to DRAM Controller (rev 03)
00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation Mobile 915GM/PM Express PCI
Express Root Port (rev 03)
00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6
Family) High Definition Audio Controller (rev 03)
00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6
Family) USB UHCI #1 (rev 03)
00:1d.1 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6
Family) USB UHCI #2 (rev 03)
00:1d.2 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6
Family) USB UHCI #3 (rev 03)
00:1d.3 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6
Family) USB UHCI #4 (rev 03)
00:1d.7 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6
Family) USB2 EHCI Controller (rev 03)
00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801 Mobile PCI Bridge (rev d3)
00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation 82801FBM (ICH6M) LPC Interface
Bridge (rev 03)
00:1f.1 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6
Family) IDE Controller (rev 03)
00:1f.2 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82801FBM (ICH6M) SATA
Controller (rev 03)
00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corporation 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family)
SMBus Controller (rev 03)
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation NV43 [GeForce Go
6200/6400] (rev a1)
06:05.0 CardBus bridge: Texas Instruments PCI7420 CardBus Controller
06:05.2 FireWire (IEEE 1394): Texas Instruments PCI7x20 1394a-2000
OHCI Two-Port PHY/Link-Layer Controller
06:05.3 Mass storage controller: Texas Instruments PCI7420/7620 Combo
CardBus, 1394a-2000 OHCI and SD/MS-Pro Controller
06:08.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation 82562ET/EZ/GT/GZ -
PRO/100 VE (LOM) Ethernet Controller Mobile (rev 03)
06:0b.0 Network controller: Intel Corporation PRO/Wireless 2200BG
Network Connection (rev 05)

[Ed Smits (ed-smits)]

I have had exactly the same problem whether using the AMD64 or i386 Live install of the Gutsy beta. The problem seems to be with the partitioning tool itself - if before you try to install you use gParted to manually set up the partitions it also crashes after applying the change and then doing a rescan. The changes are OK, they show up correctly, and running checks on them shows them to be clean. Unfortunately since the Live install insists on formatting / and /boot I was still unable to install Gutsy - during the install I pointed it to the partitions already created, it then hung at 5% as described above. If necessary I have saved my log files from the installs if needed, and also allowed the bug reporting thing to report the crash.

Ed

[Evan (ev)]

does `grep BUG /var/log/syslog` produce anything?

[Ed Smits (ed-smits)]

I think this is what you are looking for, all lines in the saved
syslog file with bug in them.

Good luck. I ended up installing AMD64 Feisty, and will do an upgrade
in place when I get back to towm

Cheers

On 10/1/07, Evan Dandrea <email address hidden> wrote:
> does `grep BUG /var/log/syslog` produce anything?
>
> --
> gutsy install stops after formatting partitions
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/147422
> You received this bug notification because you are a direct subscriber
> of the bug.
>

Sep 30 17:42:45 ubuntu kernel: [ 38.734644] ..MP-BIOS bug: 8254 timer not connected to IO-APIC
Sep 30 17:42:45 ubuntu kernel: [ 45.333965] ehci_hcd 0000:00:13.5: debug port 1
Sep 30 17:42:48 ubuntu NetworkManager: <debug> [1191174168.710896] nm_hal_device_added(): New device added (hal udi is '/org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/dell_bluetooth_switch').
Sep 30 17:42:53 ubuntu NetworkManager: <debug> [1191174173.537030] nm_hal_device_added(): New device added (hal udi is '/org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/dell_wlan_switch').
Sep 30 17:42:53 ubuntu NetworkManager: <debug> [1191174173.538194] nm_hal_device_added(): New device added (hal udi is '/org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/pci_1002_5950').
Sep 30 17:42:53 ubuntu NetworkManager: <debug> [1191174173.538524] nm_hal_device_added(): New device added (hal udi is '/org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/pci_1002_5a3f').
Sep 30 17:42:53 ubuntu NetworkManager: <debug> [1191174173.538836] nm_hal_device_added(): New device added (hal udi is '/org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/pci_1002_5975').
Sep 30 17:42:53 ubuntu NetworkManager: <debug> [1191174173.539143] nm_hal_device_added(): New device added (hal udi is '/org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/pci_1002_5a37').
Sep 30 17:42:53 ubuntu NetworkManager: <debug> [1191174173.539447] nm_hal_device_added(): New device added (hal udi is '/org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/pci_1002_5a38').
Sep 30 17:42:53 ubuntu NetworkManager: <debug> [1191174173.539761] nm_hal_device_added(): New device added (hal udi is '/org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/pci_14e4_4312').
Sep 30 17:42:53 ubuntu NetworkManager: <debug> [1191174173.540063] nm_hal_device_added(): New device added (hal udi is '/org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/pci_1002_4380').
Sep 30 17:42:53 ubuntu NetworkManager: <debug> [1191174173.540367] nm_hal_device_added(): New device added (hal udi is '/org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/pci_1002_4380_scsi_host').
Sep 30 17:42:53 ubuntu NetworkManager: <debug> [1191174173.540680] nm_hal_device_added(): New device added (hal udi is '/org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/pci_1002_4380_scsi_host_scsi_device_lun0').
Sep 30 17:42:53 ubuntu NetworkManager: <debug> [1191174173.540984] nm_hal_device_added(): New device added (hal udi is '/org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/pci_1002_4387').
Sep 30 17:42:53 ubuntu NetworkManager: <debug> [1191174173.541287] nm_hal_device_added(): New device added (hal udi is '/org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/usb_device_0_0_0000_00_13_0').
Sep 30 17:42:53 ubuntu NetworkManager: <debug> [1191174173.541587] nm_hal_device_added(): New device added (hal udi is '/org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/usb_device_0_0_0000_00_13_0_if0').
Sep 30 17:42:53 ubuntu NetworkManager: <debug> [1191174173.541891] nm_hal_device_added...

[Patrik Jansson (patrikja)]

I can report that after leaving the mount point for the ntfs partition at the default setting, the install when along just fine.

[Ed Smits (ed-smits)]

What do you mean by that, don't change the name to /windows instead of
what it initially reports (/dev/sda1 or something similar in my case)?

On 10/1/07, Patrik Jansson <email address hidden> wrote:
> I can report that after leaving the mount point for the ntfs partition
> at the default setting, the install when along just fine.
>
> --
> gutsy install stops after formatting partitions
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/147422
> You received this bug notification because you are a direct subscriber
> of the bug.
>

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[Phillip Susi (psusi)]

Gutsy reached end of life some time ago. Are you able to reproduce this on 12.04 or higher?

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

[Expired for ubiquity (Ubuntu) because there has been no activity for 60 days.]